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To the surprise of the radical left, its efforts to politically exploit the Dec. 14 Newtown tragedy and advance virtual gun confiscation have faltered. Congress and many state legislatures will not have it, and hundreds of sheriffs have said they will not enforce it. In an attempt to turn the debate in their favor, the left is turning to a false mantra: the Second Amendment is racist.

To support their claim, radicals lean on a 1998 article by Professor Carl T. Bogus of Roger Williams University School of Law. Rather than going straight to the Second Amendment, Professor Bogus circles back to the main body of the Constitution. The article for the University of California at Davis Law Review, "The Hidden History of the Second Amendment," focuses on Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall have Power ... to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions." Professor Bogus asserts that "Insurrections" referred specifically to slave riots, and that the Second Amendment was specially crafted later to guarantee their suppression.

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richfarrsr wrote on Apr 2, 2013 7:44 PM:

" The 2nd Amendment is NOT racist. However, gun control is. In fact the first gun control was instigated in the south after the freeing of slaves. Because these newly freed slaves had the rights of free men, they wanted their own firearms. Worried that blacks would become armed and a danger to the white ex-slave-owners "gun control" laws were made that required a permit to purchase a firearm. Needless to say they wouldn't give blacks permits. "

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